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Zane is the publisher of Strebor Books (now part of Atria Books at Simon & Schuster), where she publishes 36–60 books a year by other authors. [8] Her work was the basis for the Cinemax program Zane's Sex Chronicles. [9] A subsequent project, Zane's The Jump Off, premiered March 29, 2013, on Cinemax. [10]
Addicted: Zane (author) November 28, 1998 For the Love of the Game: My Story: Michael Jordan: October 3, 1999 Yesterday, I Cried: Iyanla Vanzant: January 30, 2000 The Rock Says: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson with Joe Laydon September 24, 2000 Not a Day Goes By: E. Lynn Harris: December 31, 2000 Until Today! Iyanla Vanzant: February 5, 2001 A Day ...
Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. [1] They come from different eras and include styles such as ragtime - vaudeville , Delta and country blues , and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast . [ 2 ]
From the late 19th century the term ballad began to be used for sentimental songs with their origins in the early ‘Tin Pan Alley’ music industry. [5] As new genres of music, including the blues, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality meant led to this being used as the term for a slow love song from the 1950s onward.
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spirituals , work songs , field hollers , shouts , chants , and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture .
Little is known about the exact origin of the music now known as the blues. [1] No specific year can be cited as its origin, largely because the style evolved over a long period but blues is inarguably a Black American art form as it is noted "it is impossible to say exactly how old blues is - certainly no older than the presence of Negroes in the United States.
Jacqueline Woodson (born 1963), award-winning author of books for children and adolescents, including "Brown Girl Dreaming" David Wright (born 1964) Jay Wright (born 1934), poet; Kelly Wright, author of Outed Obsession and Fatal Fixation; Richard Wright (1908–1960), writer of novels, short stories, poems and non-fiction; Sarah E. Wright (1928 ...